lazy-like-loader.nvim

Lazy-like-loader is a plugin-loading plugin utilizing the builtin vim.pack package manager, but incorporating a module-per-plugin loading paradigm like lazy.nvim (see the way lazy does it here).

Lazy-like-loader uses similar (not identical) idiomatic "plugin spec" conventions to lazy's plugin spec, making it convenient for those moving from lazy to vim.pack or other plugin management solutions (e.g. adding plugins via a separate package manager like Nix).

The loader can also be used to hierarchical loading via the dependents and dependencies options in the plugin spec, and arbitrary functions can be setup to run after loading via loadFn.

The entire loader is hyper-minimal at only ~70 lines of lua.

Usage

Install the plugin using vim.pack (or another package manager if you'd like), then initialize it like so:

require("lazy-like-loader").setup {
    package = "tjk.plugins",
}

The package option is required. It will point to the package containing all your plugin modules. In this case: ~/.config/nvim/lua/tjk/plugins (or wherever your nvim home is).

Plugin modules can then be defined using the plugin spec, for example:

-- autoclose.lua
return {
    "autoclose",
    "https://github.com/m4xshen/autoclose.nvim",
    setup = {
        options = { pair_spaces = true },
    },
}

If the plugin cannot be loaded, then source will be passed to vim.pack.add by default which will prompt the user to optionally install the plugin. This behavior can be disabled by setting packAddMissing = false in setup.

More examples can be found as part of my neovim config here

Plugin spec